Smoking snack sticks horizontal

[MTArcher]

Most seem to smoke their snack sticks hanging vertical over dowels. Is there any disadvantage to smoking them horizontal on the smoker racks?

[Tex_77]

MTArcher probably only issue would be appearance with one side possibly being flat and having grate marks.

[blackbetty61]

MTArcher I smoke mine horizontal in my green mountain with the bull rack system…they stay round…I can get bout #10 or so only thing is I have to rotate the racks but it works for me

[Jonathon]

MTArcher Laying it on the metal can also have an influence on the cooking as you have it closer to and touching metal which will be hotter than the air. Not the end of the world but something to think of. I’d say if you can hang then hang

[MTArcher]

Thanks everyone!!

[Bigtwin]

Made 2 x 10 lb batches of venison/pork butt snack sticks this last weekend. I placed coils of snack sticks on 4 (14x14) grills in a Smoke Shack 55 (made in 2003). They turned out very well and tasty. I used brownish 21 mm collagen casing and resulted in uniform sticks (no grate marks). I placed a temp probe into the end of a coil (top rack) and it appears the temp reading was fairly accurate, based on the outcome. First sausage of any kind I’ve ever made.

[Jonathon]

Bigtwin Awesome! Did you run the sticks across or along the grate lines?

[Bigtwin]

Across…placed sticks in smoker as coils.

[archhaymaker]

I’ve smoked a couple hundred pounds of snack sticks this year on my traeger. I run them with the grate. It’s kind of a pain but I make them in 30” pieces and fold them in half. They lay perfectly in the grate and I can smoke 20-25lbs at a time depending on if I use the top rack.

I said “this year” I mean this deer season. So since October 1. I have looked at several other smoker options but damn this works pretty slick. Almost no waste when cutting them to vac seal and super straight sticks, every time.

[Phantom]

I do mine horizontal all the time in my pk100 they turn out great, the only thing i do is rotate the top and bottom rack about half way through the cook time just to make sure they cook even. I lay them across the grates.